Peer Learning Archive
A rich archive of past peer learning sessions is available below. Browse through the topics, and experience these lesson-packed sessions as audio and video recordings!
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Working Effectively with
the Forest Service
Landscape Restoration Approaches
Place-Based Forest Agreements and
Laws
Working Effectively with the Forest Service
Ethics in the World of Partnerships, a peer learning session of the Forest Service Partnership Network held November 21, 2011
The Branch Chief of the Forest Service Ethics Branch lead a training session for Forest Service
employees, covering "hot topics" regarding ethics in the world of partnerships. Topics include:
questions of endorsement and the perception of endorsement; dealing with gifts; working
appropriately with partners when they are fund-raising; board membership; and the ethics of
partnering with not-for-profit or for-profit entities.
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To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
Elements of a Successful Collaboration, a peer learning session of the Forest Service Partnership Network held August 16, 2011
The session features presentations by three successful collaboratives and their Forest Service partners. The Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition (with the Cherokee National Forest), The Wilderness Society (with the Lolo National Forest) and the Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition (with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest) share their experiences, successes, and lessons learned in working collaboratively for the conservation and restoration of national forests.
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Engaging Diverse Populations on our National Forests and Grasslands, a peer learning session of the Forest Service Partnership Network held July 29, 2011
Forest Service staff working across the country share their programs and lessons for involving urban dwellers, youth, and other populations in caring for, appreciating, and enjoying our national forests and grasslands.
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
Working with Tribal Communities, a peer learning session of the Forest Service Partnership Network held May 24, 2011
Forest Service Office of Tribal Relations staff and tribal partners describe opportunities to
work effectively with tribes, spotlighting the partnership opportunities enabled by the Tribal
Forest Protection Act of 2004.
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
State Collaborative Restoration Principles, Prescriptions, and Guidelines, held April 29, 2011
In the last several years, we’ve seen an increase in collaborative development of
principles, treatment prescriptions and guidelines for restoration of National Forests and
Grasslands. In this peer learning session, presenters from the Utah Forest Restoration Working
Group, the Northeast Forest Coalition, Montana Forest Restoration Committee, and the Arizona
Forest Health Council and Four Forests Restoration Initiative discuss the impetus behind
development of these tools, how they are being implemented and used, and how they have been
adapted over time.
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
Good Practices and Tools for Community Organizations Contracting or Entering into Agreements with the Forest Service, held June 24, 2010
- To listen to the recorded session, CLICK HERE to download the audio file
Multiparty Monitoring
The New Multiparty Monitoring and Stewardship Contracting Tool for Adaptive Management, held September 8, 2011
Join us for a presentation about the recently released Multiparty Monitoring and Stewardship Contracting Tool for Adaptive Management. This informative guide is a step by step ‘how to’ filled with examples and answers to many questions and pitfalls commonly experienced by collaborative groups seeking to develop a multiparty monitoring program. Ann Moote, author of the Guidebook, shares information about the best approaches for using the book as a resource to your multiparty monitoring effort. The Northeastern Washington Forestry Coalition also presents about their monitoring approach, which is highlighted in the Guidebook. The Regional Office of the Forest Service contracted with Sustainable Northwest to develop the Guidebook in response to requests from collaborative stewardship groups for specific information about multiparty monitoring approaches in the Pacific Northwest. Collaborative support and assistance for the Guidebook was provided by Oregon Solutions and the National Forest Foundation.- The Guidebook is available to view or download.
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE.
Lessons Learned from Five Years of Monitoring on the White Mountain Stewardship Project, held May 23, 2011
Sue Sitko of The Nature Conservancy presented the many lessons learned after five years of multiparty monitoring on the White Mountain Stewardship Project (Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest). The White Mountain Stewardship Project was the country’s first ten-year stewardship contract. The Project’s goals were to reduce the impact of wildfires to communities at risk, to improve wildlife habitat, and to restore forest health, while helping rural communities stimulate employment in the wood products industry. Sue Sitko discussed how the collaborative group involved in the Project set out to measure progress toward achieving these goals during the first five years of the Project, and how they are approaching monitoring in the next five years.- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE.
- For a summary of the monitoring effort, click HERE.
Measuring Socioeconomic Benefit and Job Creation Results, held September 22, 2011
Measuring the social and economic impacts of collaborative stewardship work is extremely important to community-based groups and their constituents. In this session, the Ecosystem Workforce Program and the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute present reports and tools they each recently released to assist community groups identify and measure socioeconomic indicators. In addition, Salmon Valley Stewardship describes their efforts to monitor the economic impact of their work, and the exciting results they can now report.- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE.
Monitoring Socioeconomic and Ecological Project Impacts (recast), held December 1, 2009
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Organizational Development
Developing Communication Strategies for Fundraising, held October 21, 2011
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Friend-raising with Social Media, Part I
Fundraising and Friend-raising with Social Media, Part I, held June 1, 2011
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Fundraising and Friend-raising, Part II, held June 15, 2011
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Update on RC&D's: the Loss of Local Coordinators, held April 21, 2011
- To listen to the recoded session,
CLICK HERE to download the audio file
Feeling Misunderstood? Communications and Media Outreach (May 21, 2008)
Linking Science to Practice
Competing Science and the Challenge of Management, a peer learning session of the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) Science-Management Connect Network held December 8, 2011
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Learning from Extension, a peer learning session of the Forest Service RMRS Science-Management Connect Network, held September 27, 2011
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Science Application and Knowledge Exchange, a peer learning session of the Forest Service RMRS Science-Management Connect Network held May 26, 2011
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Landscape Restoration Approaches
Landscape Assessments, NEPA Processes and Collaboration: held July 22, 2010
With the Forest Service’s focus on landscape-scale conservation, the agency is using new approaches to assess the condition of large acreages of forest. At the same time, many collaborative groups are working to increase the impact of their agreements across larger areas. Is this a new way of doing business for the agency, and how does it affect National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) processes?- CLICK HERE to hear and view a recast of the session. Due to technical difficulties, the audio does not play for two short periods in the session. We recommend that you "fast forward" to 8 minutes into the session when you begin listening.
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) National Framework of Indicators Update, held August 17, 2011
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
National Indicators for CFLRP, held June 29, 2011
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Monitoring for CFLRP, held April 19, 2011
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Maintaining Collaboration through Different Phases of CFLRP Projects, held February 15, 2011
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Restoration Issues
Mixed Conifer/Mixed Severity Restoration, held October 19, 2011
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Stewardship Authorities
Stewardship Authorities, Ecosystem Services and County Payments, held August 3, 2010
Mark Haggerty and Megan Lawson at Headwaters Economics presented information about their research using data from existing stewardship contracts to estimate the non-market values produced on National Forests and to showcase the importance of stewardship and restoration work on National Forests. They explored a real-world application of these concepts by discussing the pros and cons of linking county payments to the value of ecosystem services.
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CLICK HERE to hear and
view a recast of the session.
- View interactive maps showing current county payments, projected revenue sharing in 2012 and a comparison to current payments, and expanded revenue sharing payments.
- View Headwaters Economics' slide presentation about their research into county payments and their approach to measuring ecosystem service values of stewardship and Legacy Roads and Trails projects.
The New Stewardship Agreement, held April 15, 2010
The Forest Service recently created a new stewardship agreement template and process to improve the agency's ability to work with partners and to leverage more resources to get results on the ground. Al Christopherson of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Michele Wasienko-Holland of the Forest Service share information about how stewardship agreements work and important things to consider when putting one together
- CLICK HERE to hear and view a recast of the session. Presentations begin 10 minutes into the session.
The New Multiparty Monitoring and Stewardship Contracting Tool for Adaptive Management, held September 8, 2011
Join us for a presentation about the recently released Multiparty Monitoring and Stewardship
Contracting Tool for Adaptive Management. This informative guide is a step by step ‘how
to’ filled with examples and answers to many questions and pitfalls commonly experienced by
collaborative groups seeking to develop a multiparty monitoring program. Ann Moote, author of the
Guidebook, shares information about the best approaches for using the book as a resource to your
multiparty monitoring effort. The Northeastern Washington Forestry Coalition also presents about
their monitoring approach, which is highlighted in the Guidebook. The Regional Office of the
Forest Service contracted with Sustainable Northwest to develop the Guidebook in response to
requests from collaborative stewardship groups for specific information about multiparty
monitoring approaches in the Pacific Northwest. Collaborative support and assistance for the
Guidebook was provided by Oregon Solutions and the National Forest Foundation.
- The Guidebook is available to view or download
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
Stewardship Agreements in Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain), held October 24, 2011
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Stewardship Contracting in Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest), held April 22, 2011
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Stewardship Contracting in Forest Service Region 10 (Alaska), held March 31, 2011
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Working with Volunteers
Working with Volunteers: Best Practices, held November 17, 2011
Working with volunteers for conservation is a crucial component of what many of our nonprofit, collaborative and agency partners do. In this session, the Keagan Zoellner with the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation shares their volunteer recruitment and retention strategies: mainly, treat your volunteers well; Alex DeLucia with the Appalachian Mountain Club shares his knowledge of the practical and legal aspects of training and working with volunteers; and Jim Shaklee with the Poudre Wilderness Volunteers shares their online web portal volunteer scheduling and reporting tool, which will hopefully be available in a new and improved version in early summer 2012.
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
Collaboration
Collaborative Challenges: Membership Turnover and Approaches to Finding Agreement, held September 15, 2011
In this peer learning session, we discuss two major issues that challenge collaborative stewardship groups: 1) the frequent transfer of agency staff (and in some cases members of collaborative groups), and 2) the process used to find agreement amongst the many different interests at the collaborative table. Deb Whitall, Forest Service Social Scientist, describes the Forest Service’s “handover memo”, which is designed to aid in the transition from an outgoing leader to an incoming one. The Diablo Trust shares their community-led process for welcoming new agency staff and informing them about the work of the collaborative. The Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition presents information about a survey they conducted of collaborative partners—including the Forest Service—to gauge people’s perspectives on whether the work of the collaborative is worth their time and effort. In the second hour of this peer learning session, we discuss two different approaches to decision-making used by the Utah Forest Restoration Working Group and the Blue Mountain Forest Partners.
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
Rangeland Collaborations, held November 7, 2011
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Empowering Collaborative Stewardship Part 1, held November 15, 2011
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Empowering Collaborative Stewardship Part 2, held November 16, 2011
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Unveiling the New Partnership Resource Center, a peer learning session of the Forest Service Partnership Network held October 4, 2011
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Elements of a Successful Collaboration, a peer learning session of the Forest Service Partnership Network held August 16, 2011
The session features presentations by three successful collaboratives and their Forest Service partners. The Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition (with the Cherokee National Forest), The Wilderness Society (with the Lolo National Forest) and the Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition (with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest) share their experiences, successes, and lessons learned in working collaboratively for the conservation and restoration of national forests.
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
- Navigating the Swirling Waters of Collaboration (Summary of Session held on June 10, 2009)
- Collaboration and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Summary of Session held on May 6, 2009)
- Moving from Collaborative Project Design to Implementation and Monitoring (Summary of Session held on April 8, 2009)
Place-Based Forest Agreements and Laws
Place-Based Forest Agreements and Laws Symposium 2010, Part 1
Featuring: Bill Possiel and Mary Mitsos, National Forest Foundation; Martin Nie, Bolle Center for People & Forests; Lloyd McGee, Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition; Ray Vaughn, Alabama Forest Restoration Initiative; Jonathan Oppenheimer, Clearwater Basin Collaborative
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE
Featuring: Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership, Bruce Farling; Four Forest Restoration Initiative,
Ethan Aumack and Courtney Schultz; Blackfoot-Clearwater Landscape Stewardship Project, Gordy
Sanders
- To view the Vimeo Video of the session, CLICK HERE
Place-Based Forest Agreements and Laws Symposium 2010, Part 3
Featuring: Montana Forest Restoration Committee, Marnie Criley; Oregon Eastside Forests Restoration, Old Growth Protection, and Jobs Act of 2009, Rick Brown; Lakeview Stewardship Group, Jim Walls
- To view the Vimeo Video of the session, CLICK HERE
Place-Based Forest Agreements and Laws Symposium 2010, Part 4
Featuring: Three Rivers Challenge, Rick Bass * Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, Jennifer Ferenstein * Wild Rivers Master Stewardship Agreement, Shane Jimerfield
- To view the Vimeo Video of the session, CLICK HERE
NFF Grant Programs
Matching Awards Program (MAP) Overview, held May 26, 2011
- To view the recorded session, CLICK HERE